my ladies and gentlemen good evening welcome to our window T fortification 2024 2025 budget meeting presentation this is a special meeting public all Associates and notice dat4 2024 adequate electronic notice of this public meeting has been provided specifying the time place and manner in which this meeting is being conducted it was was advertised in the area post posted in all schools the administration office the municipal building the liary Ed Acres Township and our mission statement is the mission of wwn school district a large flowing Community is to educate all students become independent lifelong Le critical thinkers caring and competent members of their to District partnership with the community and in the climate of cooperation and M respect will provide an academic environment which values excellence and diversity encourage students to strive personal excellence and assist them in acquiring the knowledge skills and attitudes necessary repic in a rapidly changing World roll call Mr M Miss Mar Miss NE she will be absent thank you Miss Peterson Mr Shaw present Miss Thomas she will be abent Mr Thomas presid and Miss who will be thank you can we stand for the pledge I pledge M mark student a continents increas graduation R basis ccre rth grade LA and year d accountability to All District staff and staff stakeholders to increase parent caregiver engagement education a provid opportunties for two-way communication with District stakeholders B Implement culture climate survey three Market our exper achievements to all stakeholders to increase capacity for greater parent caregiver Community Support a work consern Rel marke C work District D focusing methods and mess better Market thank you m at this time absolutely at this time we will have presentation by um our business administrator Sor she will be assisted by Gina you hello good evening again my name is Gina CH the assistant business administrator I'm here to present the 2425 P budget so go to the first slide this um slide represents our state aid um compared to um what we got in 2425 and what we received in 2324 in 2425 we were in the operating budget also known as the general fund we got 53 mil 583740 which was an increase in 5,882 1868 um from the previous year also included in state aid is actually preschool Aid and we got 3, 87,7 which was an increase of 1,288 7 uh 25 um over the prior year um mainly this is due to an increase in our um projected students um we have the three-year-olds and the fouryear olds coming um getting budgeted next year and we're increasing um more classrooms um for a total of state aid of 57 m391 493 which is 7,1 71493 increase over the prior year next our federal aid which is budgeted in the general fund which is um here showed at semi and semi is special education Medicaid initiative um this year we were we budget $ 299,792,458 proving health related services to Medicaid eligible students um next uh this is our local contribution general fund it's made up of tax ly um excess Surplus or fund balance and withdraw from capital reserve or withdrawal from maintenance Reserve this year we are budgeting uh 54,7 34,99 in tax levy which is an increase of only 2% over the here the fund that is 8,9 2016, 42 um $2 which is an increase over prior year however this number comes from our audited um uh audited reports from the fiscal year 20 uh 2023 audit um we're also withdra 13,47 4,748 from capital reserve and this is for two capital projects that we're doing um and then with mainten maintenance Reserve we're not budgeting any withdrawal for maintenance Reserve this school year so for um the total amount for the 2 25 school year is 77 M 53,9 which is an increase of 2,6 12,24 for the general fund these are the we have local tax ly state aid extraordinary another Aid fund tuition miscellaneous um interest um and miscellane is and interest um semi and withdraw from Public Reserve um which totals 13463 and 350 sorry 13463 oh sorry so many numbers okay so 134 million $3,350 as I mentioned before I explain the tax levy the state aid the extraordinary Aid is um another state a figure um fund down tuition we have 1, 84781 which is um the tuition from our send receive relationship with chisel Hurst um the missell is 80,000 we budget this every year um and I like I said I discussed semi and withdraw from C FL Reserve go to the next slide so now I'm going to talk about budgeted Appropriations so first in budgeted Appropriations um we are going to do it um capital projects there are uh six capital projects that we're going to do the first one is the replacement of unit V leaders at the high school this is additional funding um that we're um transferring into um the general fund this is one of the projects that I discussed in the capital Reser and that's 7,11 18522 the next is the upgrade at the H system at school 6 for 6,282 226 so these two projects are getting with uh withdrawing on you from toal Reserve to F the next four projects um we're using additional State a so the greef Trap replacement at schools 1 through four roof replacement at the J hall roof replacement um J hall at the high school uh we're getting full Barn at for the High School athletics and then roof replacement at the administration building um I'm sorry so if you see that those are the additional projects for a total of 17,1 1457 $478 so the other budgeted Appropriations are instruction at 42 ,850 199 um tuition $3,989 289 student support is 11, 66,800 sorry 79254 $141 um operation and maintenance is 10,556 61 student transportation is 11,714 182 benefits of 17,7 17 M 73,3 195 food service is 25,000 um interest earned for maintenance Reserve is $500 capital outlay is7 milon 77162 and then transfer to Charter School of $5 54,4 31 for a total operating budget of 134 m633 next um this is a three-year comparison of our revenues so in the First Column we have the actual 2223 um revenues and expenses for that year uh the second column is the uh 2324 revised budget which is the Year we're working in right now and then the 425 proposed um as you can see from the 2223 um budget compared to the 2425 we did increase um in revenues and Appropriations due mainly because of our additional uh state aid and additional um budgeted fund balance we also had a slight decrease in transfers in from capital reserve and maintenance Reserve but um but basically the increases due to the um increase that we got in state a and then next so for the proposed 2425 budget we have the general fund which our budget is 134 m633 and anticipated revenue is 79,3 28,41 and our local tax levy is 4,734 n49 our special Revenue fund which is where our preschool Aid is and other federal grants we have budgeted budgeted 10,137 445 our revenues is this 10,134 445 dollar and that's the same since we're um we budget what we received so for a total budget of 144 mil2 00795 with anticipated revenues of$ 9,465 4846 with again the tax Val of 4 54,7 34,9 49 we also have a transfer from the general fund to the special Revenue fund of 76155 since it is recorded in both U revenues and expenditures in in general fund and special Revenue fund we have to take out to show a net of um a net transfer so our total budget is 44,1 24,64174 $ 34,99 and um and next that is it yes so any questions yes I had two questions um in terms of Transportation as a ro loal for how many new buses oh um we're getting four four new buses second um operations and maintenance does that include um work on school three parking lot situation I yes and what was the projected numbers for that parking lot it's flooded all the time that parking lot basically flooded because it drains over into that that stream or 11 or whatnot um and we needed it back get back and so they went in um with the snake so they can see what's in there and then we got it jet backed out uh if you I think it's next agenda the next meeting there's a presentation or um actually we don't make the presentation but it's it's an attachment it's a report once that work was done they show before and an after it's if it PRS we got sking R after they they did that jet fing it closed so the um that thing was cloged it flowed and Dy nice and dry so that is that is done but what we would like to do for um paintings and we have to talk to also we and wetlands we want to go in and clear out some of the stuff that's in that that stream ditch or whatever so that we can keep the water I believe the township had come out and did some work for us which was very helpful um but we had to go in because I traveled that another question safety U I know that the lines are not out there so right in front of school three you know usually where they're walking the crossing is that a Township or a county or I think it's the township that was putting the um there's L and that's a safety issue that of our students conversations with police anday but had okay I appreciate I appreciate that I don't want to see anyone get hit and anticipation of the new all the new building that is going on in windlow uh so it's too early to see how many students will yield from those areas am I correct and then are elementary schools one through um four have they reached their math there's still some capacity available however um of course we and increase class sizes we've always try to keep our class sizes down to a Mand size teachers but um we will take students and the Chisel building we are working now with chisel um we are hoping to be in the Chisel building in September so we still move forward hopefully a few things CH side man we're hoping to building um this September with our threey old and maybe thank you just just a comment antip income development when projects are um passed through there are projected studies for possible anticipated um children or school age children that you can look at to kind of come up with hypothesis of anticipated income into the school district okay uh when I was at a meeting two years ago there wasn't any anticipation of that that was my first question a number for example Pro 40 60 possible children rly so there are large studies in some these larger development or these larger projects then they go through the plan process process yes um yes yes yes okay um I guess the okay from 234 and then 2425 53 now my understanding is that we got 5.3 million that incorporated in the 2425 yes so if you yes so the 53 million includ is the is milon more than the 47 so that's in that's the state additional state aid that we got that was uh just discussed um and another question in reference to this with that coming into the district it's allocated to us is it specific places that that money must go no no that's a okay it's operating yes yes so the operating budget is the general fund which is where we do all of our okay so if there's then you have so the money is budgeted right now it's budgeted um you cannot you cannot commit it all because the next year if you say you know I'm going to I don't know I'm going to buy um not buy something but I'm going to hire a bunch of people and absorb all then the year that you have to negotiate with your teachers you have nothing so you you kind of have to look ahead um uh and utilize it part of it's utilized for Necessities for instance a leaking grof at the high school um you know I think we met with some staff we we asked them okay let's have a conversation what's going on I don't know about that we could take care of and that was brought up so that was a project when that project it's one time when it's done money's there for us to is Bob cover your ear negotiate with our unit because you know you know it's coming up you can't exhaust it because you know there is an expectation so and again uh with this budget that we're presenting tonight it's not very deeply detailed because we are not permitted to do that yet the county office has got to improve it before we can say you know we have we have $25,000 sitting here and this sitting there so and again it's a tentative it's a budget it's not an actual and we can transfer every year we can transfer according moving forward this a tenative agreement with the county approving it it's a tenative budget that we submit up to the county they do a deep dive on it they're specifically looking to set our tax level which we have set out to 2% um and then they want to make sure everything ties out we've done the correct resolutions and stuff like that um they can approve it after they approve it we can go more into detail I can't even I can't um go deep like I can't say this is here that's there what's included what's not included for instance we do know that we're getting we're going to purchase Vehicles historically we were buying seven uh but that's when they were 100,000 they've gone up to 140,000 so the same money we set aside we can't get however the governor did um change the useful life of the bus from 15 years to 20 years so buses that we thought would have to go off the rotation schedule we still have okay all right so they're out there for a long but you life however we want to still keep adding to the fleet because of the additional um developments that Mr Glick is approving over at township all right and you know for growth and also how the district plac homeless children so we still want to keep up with that I think I I said too much thank you um I don't know if this this the right question for the right moment but we one1 technology for buybooks for every student at Le starting in high school is that part of the budget this year are we going to try to put that in the budget get Chromebooks in our high schools yes we we spent almost half million every year technology uh we've always book in our district for our students K to 12 um so that's not anything new at this time um we um get rid of the buy new ones every year so that's something we do every we're one of districts in this surrounding area where kids aren't signed a Chromebook in the beginning of the school year post so I'm asking we want to allocate money in our budget to make sure that we get our kids technology they need there's so many great things that come behind getting them a Chromebook just get besides getting a Chromebook right now we have enough Chromebooks in our district for every St to take home well we we have them Chromebooks to take home um at this point we have a Chromebook for every student once they come into school I mean it's still the same the only difference asking is will they be able home that's a decision the board will have to make first of all want to congratulate you on such a f job this am I do have sever questions um this is buget is that correct so things can change things can change on this yeah now I'm assuming we having a public hearing soon we have to schedule the public hearing on when we will vote for um passing the budget and when's the deadline I believe the last dayes have I think it's April 20 something to May the last day the public the first day is the 24 com questions concern about budget at that time so and at that time there's some things that need change that's that's basically your time to come and introduce and then after that actually vote on a permanent budget yes so that's the process on that that's that question uh we increased in our prek how many classrooms do you think we'll get how many children we get with the uh expansion of our pre pre if we're a to get into we are certain four to six classroom that's not necessarily taking over building just talk about classroom so that's yes easily easily increas service that that neighborhood that's a good thing and that gives us an opportunity to increase or gain add classroom at schools one through four because we're offering classrooms are we one ofri not districts the area that does three four and programs but there the money um early so we look at it we um through Dr depart at program Plus for us always had that need in this to get our young in education as opposed to those young people going to daycare so three year old four so yes continue but keep in mind that even the four class cannot have I think it's a great thing I think will help us with our AC anytime we can do something to Ser the community a good thing now the uh I guess the I want say ex but the the the operating budget where we had an increase in that the money is being extended for leaks or whatever it may among the budget is there any money that we pull out there education that is to be determined as you stated uh however keep in mind um we had newes it last year we had new textbook adoptions we had new textbook adoptions coming and therefore we have to maintain have so I'm not going to ini requ to have new initiatives every year the budget can't sustain new initiatives nor new initiatives encourage every year you have to implement Implement EXC programs like we did work through to see if it's going to be effective or not continue to do so then on the other hand training now with st we've ever done so at this point I am not recommending initiatives however as we continue to progress through the course of the year that may change but at this point I do not have looking atain so there's nothing new is that what we saying well that let's continue initiatives already place so we already so Implement at this point so at what point do we Mr Thomas especially curricular Liv you're looking at to five years determ what real impact that initiative had so it takes time so as Dr mentioned that part of this budget for the initiative understanding what we put in place will involve new textbook adoption so we are behind and I'm giving back money this yeary say thank you only because I wasn't able to utilize the money that I had set aside as part of my textbook adoption plan and that's because the vendors were delayed and updating resources so we try not to purchase anything that's more than a year or two years old because we have a fiveyear textbook evaluation adoption plan so with this year because we are rolling in those textbooks that we didn't get a chance to uh do new adoptions because they were the vendors simply were not um making changes at that time we're looking at about 24 new adoptions and that's going to be a ton of money and the bulk of that goes to the high school and you look at the number of students that we have taken courses we're looking at between 3 and 400 textbook a series depending on what iset we're getting so if we're looking at a science book an individual book can cost anywhere from 150 uh to $175 per book so my budget has already been assigned to me but I know that I'll be going back to the business office to say that I need additional money depending on the adoptions that I have so what that Cre what stage are we in we finish and only textbook I was about to tell you that I can't give you the stage of each because the plan has books coming in at different times so what I have developed is looking at when I adopt a book when we're going to go back five years out for re-evaluation to determine whether or not we need to adopt a new it so I can't say to you that this year well I can say to you that this year I'm looking at quite a few because they are past the age and that's because we were not able to get new updated resources so for example calculus is an older series that we were looking at doing an adoption in 22 but at the time there was nothing new and we still don't have the vendors saying you know look for something this year to be finalized so everything is at a different time and that's why I have so many come this year next question the tax levy rate is there increase or doesn't stay the same U tax levy is an increase of 2% of the year but the rate but the the actual rate the rate at the increase the rate is it still at 1.9 2% 2% so that didn't that didn't go up or down didn't raise that and you have that we have debt like your everybody but so you didn't the normal uh in the HBC I see where increase is a$1 million decreas explain from two years ago upgrade system number seem like that so yes so in um two yes two years ago we went out for H School five um and we originally budgeted that based off of the rates then at 5.4 Million last year when we did our budget um we actually increased it to uh six million and this is school six now we're doing now we're doing school six this year so last well I mean that was school 202 2022 2023 was better than 5,5 4,229 now it's up to 6 6,282 226 I want to I think we found this is TR to um this is an upgrade School number five we already have yeah we already have money for school six this year so this is school five that's a big that's a bigp yes but it's five it's not six going in the PO no that does not where is that GNA go between it's GNA go between the middle and high school um each sport I think it started out with one of sports important for us because athletic programs are growing uh the need to replace equipment growing and we have stuff outside we have stuff inside the buildings we're using one of the old locker rooms we got stuff you need to start bringing that equipment in Ina and and we need to buildar because we can't have these little bars all over the place looks like we have a Housing Development oner so we need to do something with storage for program because it's time and you know we Le out we stor stuff all over the place to the point where we need to get a hold of organized so each coach each program know where their mat is from year to year and be able to Sal what Ty of dimensions are you looking at I would have boil but it's larger than storage places we're looking at something much bigger than we've ever built before for athletic storage U so we can get programs there I'm not sure point but it is much larger than we have out there now I believe it's 24 now I'm not have to be dig I can't picture that um but it's going to in least the light bulb I I told the archit on ibody off head so we were able to get enough you told me to get to a certain point go ahead and put it on and we'll we'll get it so that was something we were trying to get done I know Dr said we're storing stuff in a it's a locker all over the place you know we're looking for space wherever we can put it we put it and at this we need that lock Vis Lo and it needs that Lo so have a nice place visitors here um so it because you take all that Stu out so it has there several projects be done and at this point that is why we uh admin does it any part of that includes employee training so I think the employee training comes under professional development is that what is that appropriation well that's the that's administra lines and technology so and that's the line admin technology right so Information Technology that's um also that's our our text are budgeted for their salary um there's equipment I don't think there's equipment in there but there there are certain um um there is a project money in there as well so but I don't know I don't know if they go out for specialized train so on on our next will that be explained what type of training is it budgeted for under that item for our yeah for we can find out what they're doing like how do you stay current I don't know if they go out for workshops or what not but technology you have to stay current it might be on this it me pardon me it have question what Mr Thomas said um for school H that's we're pulling that out capital reserve yes so that's not that's from entirely different funding source but we have to say we're going to take it out to cover this and historically with our project that's what we do that yearend we'll put in a resolution saying you know if I have it we're going to put this into capital reserve and then we try to tuck that away so that we can make uh repairs on the building without impacting the tax levy um which would be taxpayers Pockets we're not doing that we try to store it away even um projects that we don't have to go out and get debt for so we just funded 100% And um just ask you one of the things we've been trying to do here in the district for years is to air condition you know we call of course H systems we've been trying to air condition all the schools in this District at least those with second FL the high school is ready to go just waiting to get that b up we get approvals from the state and all the other folks who have to sign off school six and school five and we're just hoping that at some point down in next year too projects will be up and running and then of course get five six high school at other elementary schools that um also need to be aition that would be a for uh one two a part of school school three is the only Elementary at this point that we have as air condition yes ma' dream team with they're telling us as well as a reminder they're going don't forget that the hbac system in the middle school is past the CH school okay so you know we they start we may have to right right and and the ones the newer ones were the ones that were failing can be replaced right so it's the old thank you m Mo any more comments as far as our chook do we have insurance on the Chromebooks on each individual one or no no no as long as they are part of just School use there's no need for us to have insurance like for individual Chromebooks so we um as a school district turn over let's say three four 500 every year because just like textbooks every year their age or useful so let's say every years bought you FES so as far as we're not required we accordingly but if we're talk individual individual student that's a discussion the bo um if you're going to give young people the par to buy that's decision no we are responsible for main of our Chromebooks because they are school property just like anything else fix or we replace any more questions comments good job a motion move by Miss Peterson second by Ms comment roll call there are no callers at this time now for your forg Mr M Miss Mar Miss Peterson Mr Miss th Mr Tom yes I'm looking for a motion open comment of ucation ciens make important decisions that affect children our we also believe the right our that all our citizens have the opportunity to school board meetings and offer comment board to conduct the important bu in District we ask the speak follow guidelines public comments of public comments agenda for president board secretary will recognize individuals in the audience who wish to make comment please respect the following procedure number one all members of public the school board meeting each other and the board with respect number two state your fullone name and address number three please liit your comments to four minutes number four submit your question to the Board of Education with your name address and telephone number where you can be contacted your questions will be answered within the reasonable time and number five individuals offering citizen comment are not permitted to make personal tax on any District employee board member other testifier or member of the public comments move by Miss Peterson second by Miss Mar all in favor yes we thank you is there anybody not at this time now look for motion to close comve by by Mar all in favor look fore second Martin move by second by Martin all in favor